Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-14

moment as much as TO say: "Ah, ha;
old fellow you've been tippiing again,
haven't yous" and dilates her nostriis and
sticks up her nose as IL the smell of liquor
was offensive to her. The next thing she
does is to rush from the room, and all the
coaxing in the world would not induce
her to come back. She remains away and
entirely out of sight until late in the after
noon OF the following day, when she
creeps stealthily into the back kitchen,
ooking about to see IL her owner is any
where in sight. If he Is not she cautious
ly trips into the sitting-room In search of
him. II he is there she can tell at a glance
whether he is sober or not, and, If he Is
sober, she walks slowly to her place in the
corner and lies down without APP
pearing to notice his presence. In
case he is still ga little off," he says she
will dart from the house and stay out Of
sight for another day. He says he never
abuses hcr or speaks cross to her, and her
peculiar conduct interests him so much
that he takes pleasure in telling about it to
his friends.
A wealthy gentleman IN the upper part
OF Scranton has q watch dog that five
hundred dollars could not buy. He Is q
thoroughbred English mastiff, and the
gentleman tells this story about his watch
full conduct: At about eleven O'Clock one
night, when the full moon was shining
brightly, the gentleman happened to look
out of the back window, just after he had
turned off the gas preparatory to going to
bed, and saw a man leap over the fenco
into the yard. He told his wife about it,
remarking at the same time that he
guessed Samson would take core Of the In
truder before he did any damage. He had
no sooner said this than Samson sprang
out of the kennel at the man. and the
man rushed into en- outhouse and slammed
the door behind him. The owner of the
premises, knowing that there was nothing
in the outhouse that the nocturnal
visitor would care to carry away if he had
a chance. and believing that the mastiff
would properly attend to the intruder
when he got ready to come out, went to
bod instead of going out to see what the
man wanted around there. In the morn
ing the faithful dog was still watching the
outhouse door, and the gentleman raised
the window and spoke to the dog. As
Samson turned to see what his master
wanted of him dirty tramp sprang out OF
the outhouse and made for the fence, O
few feet away. The dog heard his step,
and turned that way as quick as fash.
The tramp had just grasped the top of the
fence when the dog got there, and he made
W
over the fence before the mastifR had
chance to bite him, but he left good por-,
tion of one of his garments on the other
side with the dog and then he ran like
frightened deer, the gentleman command
ing the dog not to follow him. The fellow
was sneak burglar, and two nights later
he was caught while attempting to steal
clothing from q hallway on the same
street.
Two tame gray squirrels are the fayorite
pets of an animal lover on Franklin ave-
nue.. The squ!-rols run about the house
like two kittens and are obedient to their
master every time he tells them to 60 to
their cage. He often takes them about
town with him, to their apparent pleasure
and satisfaction. Whencver he tells them
that they can so along, they skip up his
legs and crawl into the pockets of his sack
coat, where they nestle down until he en-
ters store or saloon. Then he orders
them to come out, and they hurry from
his pockets and caper about the room un-
til he gets ready to leave. Their antics and
their perfect obedience interest and amuse
every body who sees them. Each squirrel
has his own particular pocket to get into,
and they have been so well trained that
neither ever tries to get into the pocket
that belongs to the other. When the gem
tleman wears heavy overcoat he some
times permits both of them TO cuddie down
together, when they appear to be very
happy indeed.